Thursday, December 11, 2008

preparing for christmas

he wanted to know if i could wrap some things and put them under the tree.i'm guessing he wants some reassurance that he will for sure be getting some presents for christmas.

so tonight i wrapped for a couple of hours. but before i started, i realized i hadn't even gotten any tags yet. so instead i color-coded the kids gifts. blue snowman paper for anna, green reindeer paper for josh and red penguin paper for ben.

john decided to put up the train set too.

i'm thinking josh will be super excited tomorrow morning when he sees all the gifts and the trains. and i hope he'll be able to wait another 13 days!

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results."
Albert Einstein

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
Melody Beattie“…when some doctor tells you “Your child won’t…” or “Don’t get your hopes up,” don’t you dare sell your child out and buy into that… defeatist attitude. Sometimes all it takes is a belief that it can happen, the determination to create the possibilities —the right environment, the right people— and the ability to love your child more than you fear their labels and limitations.”
Niksmom, Maternal Instincts blog

"It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly that all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights. I might never have learned this in any other way. I may have gone on in the arrogance of my own intolerance for those less able than myself. My child taught me humanity."
Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author, Pearl S. Buck

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
Anna Quindlen, Author

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein, Inventor